Last night I got to my hotel - the quaint Emerson Inn by the Sea -- in Rockport, Mass, after a dinner meeting in nearby Gloucester. I was tired but clicked the TV on. Jon Stewart's Daily Show turned into the Colbert Report. I don't get to watch it very often, and was fading off to sleep. But his opening segment "The Word -- Sink or Swim" was on climate change -- in fact Sea Level Rise.
Carbon capture and storage -- known as sequestration -- is the key issue affecting climate change. Forests are usually thought of as the best example of how nature stores carbon, removing it from the atmosphere. A new study, in the scientific journal NATURE shows that the vast coastal seagrass beds -- hardly something that any of us usually thinks about -- actually stores more carbon than forests can.
From the news and political beat, you could easily think that a lot of Americans doubt the premise, facts, and urgency of dealing with the climate change crisis. Apparently that's simply not true. An authoritative new study last week gave some very encouraging news -- that is really quite surprising. Yale's Center on Climate Change Communication published the latest in their sophisticated study of public attitudes in the US.
Sea Level suddenly rose more than 65 feet (20 m) in about four centuries––more than a foot a decade. That astonishing event happened over 14,000 years ago. A new study this week in the scientific journal Nature points the finger at Antarctica as the probable cause. It is rare for academic articles about something so ancient to get much interest.
Article about how unmanned gliders are changing oceanography in THE ECONOMIST today. Their usual standard of keen insight and superb writing. See 
nearby Gloucester. I was tired but clicked the TV on. Jon Stewart's Daily Show turned into the Colbert Report. I don't get to watch it very often, and was fading off to sleep. But his opening segment "The Word -- Sink or Swim" was on climate change -- in fact Sea Level Rise.
Carbon capture and storage -- known as sequestration -- is the key issue affecting climate change. Forests are usually thought of as the best example of how nature stores carbon, removing it from the atmosphere. A new study, in the scientific journal NATURE shows that the vast coastal seagrass beds -- hardly something that any of us usually thinks about -- actually stores more carbon than forests can.
